PDHPE Assessment Task #1 2019 - Due Tuesday 19th March
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Assessment Task - Road Safety.
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The two videos required for Option One of the PDHPE task are available on Student Public here:
Student Public/10 PDHPE 2018/Road Safety
Student Public/10 PDHPE 2018/Road Safety
Road Safety Campaigns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgV9Oa6z5wY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRlvr9Zl2Ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsyvrkEjoXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r9u7Rn-nm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olNwo1sXhQI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgV9Oa6z5wY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRlvr9Zl2Ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsyvrkEjoXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r9u7Rn-nm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olNwo1sXhQI
Thursday 23rd August - Road Safety
Read the following articles from 2009 and complete the questions on p66 and 67 in your handouts:
www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-05/nsw-holiday-road-toll-period-ends-15-dead/256698
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-05/nsw-considering-car-confiscations-for-speeding-p/256768
After completing these, head to this link and read about the changes made to license laws:
http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/roads/licence/driver/get-driver-licence.html
Read the following articles from 2009 and complete the questions on p66 and 67 in your handouts:
www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-05/nsw-holiday-road-toll-period-ends-15-dead/256698
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-05/nsw-considering-car-confiscations-for-speeding-p/256768
After completing these, head to this link and read about the changes made to license laws:
http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/roads/licence/driver/get-driver-licence.html
Select the three changes that you think will make the biggest impact on younger drivers.
For each of these three changes, answer the following questions:
1.Why do you think this change has come about? What does this change hope to achieve?
2. How will this impact you personally as a driver?
3. Do you agree with change? Why or why not?
For each of these three changes, answer the following questions:
1.Why do you think this change has come about? What does this change hope to achieve?
2. How will this impact you personally as a driver?
3. Do you agree with change? Why or why not?
WORK EXPERIENCE FILES TO PRINT:
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YEAR 10 PDHPE ASSESSMENT TASK – UNIT TWO: UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION
This task is due on Thursday 7th June.
Below you will find, in order, for you to download:
1. A PDF copy of the task with the marking grid on the reverse
2. A PDF copy of the "Before You Begin" sheet
3. A PDF copy of the daily diary pages for you to print at home
4. (To come) A PDF copy of the "Follow-Up Reflection" sheet which will be posted here in the week the task is due
Below you will find, in order, for you to download:
1. A PDF copy of the task with the marking grid on the reverse
2. A PDF copy of the "Before You Begin" sheet
3. A PDF copy of the daily diary pages for you to print at home
4. (To come) A PDF copy of the "Follow-Up Reflection" sheet which will be posted here in the week the task is due
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Year 10 PDHPE Assessment Task – Unit One: Making A Difference
This task is due on Thursday 15th March.
Below you will find, in order, for you to download:
1. A PDF copy of the task with the medical vs minority/social model of disability on p2
2. A PDF copy of the worksheets that you are to complete as Part One of the task
3. Stella Young's TED Talk
4. A PDF copy of an article written at the time of Stella Young's death
5. A PDF copy of the article we looked at in class on Sexual Harassment
6. Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes Acceptance Speech
In order to find the Kurt Fearnley video, you need to access Student Public/10 PDHPE 2018.
You will also find additional copies of all of the above available in that folder.
Below you will find, in order, for you to download:
1. A PDF copy of the task with the medical vs minority/social model of disability on p2
2. A PDF copy of the worksheets that you are to complete as Part One of the task
3. Stella Young's TED Talk
4. A PDF copy of an article written at the time of Stella Young's death
5. A PDF copy of the article we looked at in class on Sexual Harassment
6. Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes Acceptance Speech
In order to find the Kurt Fearnley video, you need to access Student Public/10 PDHPE 2018.
You will also find additional copies of all of the above available in that folder.
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discrimintation_task_part_one.pdf | |
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stella_young_article.pdf | |
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EVERYTHING BELOW THIS POINT IS NOT PARTICULARLY RELEVANT TO WHAT WE'RE DOING IN YEAR 10 PDHPE!
TUESDAY 22ND NOVEMBER, 2016
Hi Year 7,
Hopefully last week you all managed to complete the Via Character Strengths Quiz. If not, that's your first task.
1. Go to:
viacharacter.org
and complete the VIA Survey (Youth - Ages 10-17). You may use your school or home e-mail to register.
2. Once you've completed the quiz, download your results and save them as a PDF to your desktop then print a copy for yourself.
3. Check the pile of summaries for your top four character strengths. If any of them are missing, scroll down on this page to find the descriptions, copy and paste your relevant strengths into a word document and print it out for yourself.
4. Paste each strength at the top of a new page in your work book leaving the space underneath each one blank so that you can have room to write. It should end up looking something like this:
Hi Year 7,
Hopefully last week you all managed to complete the Via Character Strengths Quiz. If not, that's your first task.
1. Go to:
viacharacter.org
and complete the VIA Survey (Youth - Ages 10-17). You may use your school or home e-mail to register.
2. Once you've completed the quiz, download your results and save them as a PDF to your desktop then print a copy for yourself.
3. Check the pile of summaries for your top four character strengths. If any of them are missing, scroll down on this page to find the descriptions, copy and paste your relevant strengths into a word document and print it out for yourself.
4. Paste each strength at the top of a new page in your work book leaving the space underneath each one blank so that you can have room to write. It should end up looking something like this:
5. In the space underneath each of your top four strengths, answer the following questions in detail AND IN FULL SENTENCES (don't necessarily be guided by the sample above, it's only to show the lay-out, you'll be writing much more!)
6. After you've answered the dot point questions above for all four of your top strengths, start a new page in your book and write down what sort of careers or pursuits you think might suit someone with your combination of character strengths? Do these careers sound like you?
7. With Mrs Schuberg you completed the www.16personalities.com test. What similarities can you find between your personality type and your character strengths? What differences do you notice?
8. Has completing these two tests helped you understand yourself any better? Why or why not?
9. Ephesians 2:4-9 says:
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Knowing our character strengths can be helpful in giving people hope, meaning and purpose in their lives but the bible passage above from Ephesians gives us some other reasons for having hope, meaning and purpose. What are these reasons?
(If you find the language tricky you might like to try this simpler English version.)
HERE ARE THE CHARACTER STRENGTH DESCRIPTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT NEED TO PRINT OFF:
Appreciation Of Beauty And Excellence
If Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence is your top strength you notice and appreciate beauty, excellence, and/or skilled performance in all domains of life, from nature to art to mathematics to science to everyday experience.
Virtue Category
Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence falls under the virtue category of Transcendence. Transcendence describes strengths that provide a broad sense of connection to something higher in meaning and purpose than ourselves.
Key Concepts
There are three types of goodness for which individuals high in Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence are responsive to:
Physical beauty. This may be visual, auditory, tactile, or abstract. This type of goodness produces awe and wonder in the individual experiencing it.
Skill or talent (excellence). This is often energizing, and makes the individual want to pursue their own goals. It produces admiration.
Virtue or moral goodness (moral beauty). Virtual goodness makes the individual want to be better, more loving, and produces feelings of elevation.
Bravery
If Bravery is your top strength, you are a courageous person who does not shrink from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain. You speak up for what is right even if there is opposition. You act on your convictions.
Virtue Category
Bravery falls under the virtue category of Courage. Courage describes strengths that deal with overcoming fear. These strengths can manifest themselves inwardly or outwardly as they are composed of cognitions, emotions, motivations and decisions.
Key Concepts
There are three types of bravery (an individual may possess one of these or a combination):
Physical bravery (e.g., firefighters, police officers, soldiers)
Psychological bravery (e.g., facing painful aspects of oneself)
Moral bravery (e.g., speaking up for what's right, even if it's an unfavorable opinion to a group)
Creativity
If Creativity is your top strength, thinking of new ways to do things is a crucial part of who you are. You are never content with doing something the conventional way if a better way is possible.
Virtue Category
Creativity falls in the virtue category of Wisdom. Wisdom deals with strengths that involve the way we acquire and use knowledge.
Key Concepts
There are two essential components to Creativity- originality and adaptiveness. A creative individual generates ideas or behaviors that are novel or unusual and these make a positive contribution to the individual's life or the lives of others.
Curiosity
If Curiosity is your top strength, you are interested in learning more about anything and everything. You are always asking questions, and you find all subjects and topics fascinating. You like exploration and discovery.
Virtue Category
Curiosity falls in the virtue category of Wisdom. Wisdom deals with strengths that involve the way we acquire and use knowledge.
Key Concepts
There are two key components to curious individuals: They are interested in exploring new ideas, activities and experiences, and they also have a strong desire to increase their own personal knowledge.
Fairness
If Fairness is your top strength, treating people fairly is one of your abiding principles. You do not let your personal feelings bias your decisions about other people. You give everyone a chance.
Virtue Category
Fairness falls under the virtue category of Justice. Justice describes strengths that make life fair. They are broadly interpersonal and describe the best interaction between the individual and a group or community.
Key Concepts
Fairness is a cognitive judgment capacity that involves reasoning and making judgments. It involves 2 types of reasoning:
Justice reasoning which emphasizes logic and weighing principles to determine moral rights and responsibilities.
Care reasoning which includes empathy and compassion; the ability to put yourself in somebody else's shoes.
Forgiveness
If Forgiveness is your top strength, you are good at forgiving those who have done you wrong. You always give people a second chance. You believe in mercy, and not revenge.
Virtue Category
Forgiveness falls under the virtue category of Temperance. Temperance deals with strengths that protect us from excess. It is the practiced ability to monitor and manage one's emotions, motivation and behavior in the absence of outside help.
Key Concepts
It is important to distinguish forgiveness from:
Gratitude
If Gratitude is your top strength you are aware of the good things that happen to you, and you never take them for granted. Your friends and family members know that you are a grateful person because you always take the time to express your thank
Virtue Category
Gratitude falls under the virtue category of Transcendence. Transcendence describes strengths that provide a broad sense of connection to something higher in meaning and purpose than ourselves.
Key Concepts
There are two types of gratitude:
Honesty
If Honesty is your top strength, you are a straightforward person, not only by speaking the truth but by living your life in a genuine and authentic way. You are down to earth and without pretense; you are a "real" person.
Virtue Category
Honesty falls under the virtue category of Courage. Courage describes strengths that deal with overcoming fear. These strengths can manifest themselves inwardly or outwardly as they are composed of cognitions, emotions, motivations and decisions.
Key Concepts
This strength involves accurately representing your internal states, intentions, and commitments, both publicly and privately. The strength of honesty is often linked to self-concordance- the extent to which your goals accurately represent your implicit interests and values. Honesty allows people to take responsibility for their feelings and behaviors, owning them, and reaping benefits by doing so.
Hope
If Hope is your top strength you expect the best in the future, and you work to achieve it. You believe that the future is something that you can control.
Virtue Category
Hope falls under the virtue category of Transcendence. Transcendence describes strengths that provide a broad sense of connection to something higher in meaning and purpose than ourselves.
Key Concepts
Optimism is closely linked with having a particular explanatory style (how we explain the causes of bad events). People using an optimistic explanatory style interpret events as external, unstable and specific. Those using a pessimistic explanatory style interpret events as internal, stable and global.
Humility
If Humility is your top strength, you do not seek the spotlight, preferring to let your accomplishments speak for themselves. You do not regard yourself as special, and others recognize and value your modesty.
Virtue Category
Humility falls under the virtue category of Temperance. Temperance deals with strengths that protect us from excess. It is the practiced ability to monitor and manage one's emotions, motivation and behavior in the absence of outside help.
Key Concepts
A common misconception is that humility involves having a low self-esteem, a sense of unworthiness, and/or a lack of self-focus. However, true humility involves an accurate self-assessment, recognition of limitations, keeping accomplishments in perspective, and forgetting of the self. Humble people do not distort information to defend or verify their own image, and they do not need to see-or present- themselves as being better than they actually are.
Humor
If Humor is your top strength you like to laugh and tease. Bringing smiles to other people is important to you. You try to see the light side of all situations.
Virtue Category
Humor falls under the virtue category of Transcendence. Transcendence describes strengths that provide a broad sense of connection to something higher in meaning and purpose than ourselves.
Key Concepts
Humor involves the ability to make other people smile or laugh. It also means having a composed and cheerful view on adversity that allows an individual to see its light side and thereby sustain a good mood.
Judgment
If Judgment is your top strength, thinking things through and examining them from all sides are important aspects of who you are. You do not jump to conclusions, and you rely only on solid evidence to make your decisions. You are able to change your mind.
Virtue Category
Judgment falls in the virtue category of Wisdom. Wisdom deals with strengths that involve the way we acquire and use knowledge.
Key Concepts
The strength of judgment is a corrective strength in that it counteracts faulty thinking, such as favoring your current views or favoring ideas that are considered the dominant view, and therefore giving less attention to the less-dominant view. It is the willingness to search actively for evidence against your favored beliefs, plans or goals and to weigh all of the evidence fairly when it is available.
Kindness
If Kindness is your top strength you are kind and generous to others, and you are never too busy to do a favor. You enjoy doing good deeds for others, even if you do not know them well.
Virtue Category
Kindness falls under the virtue category of Humanity. Humanity describes strengths that manifest in caring relationships with others. These strengths are interpersonal and are mostly relevant in one-on-one relationships.
Key Concepts
Kind individuals believe that others are worthy of attention and affirmation for their own sake as human beings, not out of s sense of duty or principle. There are three traits of altruistic personalities:
Leadership
If Leadership is your top strength, you excel at encouraging a group to get things done and preserving harmony within the group by making everyone feel included. You do a good job organizing activities and seeing that they happen.
Virtue Category
Leadership falls under the virtue category of Justice. Justice describes strengths that make life fair. They are broadly interpersonal and describe the best interaction between the individual and a group or community.
Key Concepts
Leadership is a social phenomenon that can be distinguished into two areas:
Love
If Love is your top strength you value close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing and caring are reciprocated. The people to whom you feel most close are the same people who feel most close to you.
Virtue Category
Love falls under the virtue category of Humanity. Humanity describes strengths that manifest in caring relationships with others. These strengths are interpersonal and are mostly relevant in one-on-one relationships.
Key Concepts
There are four types of love, each with a biological and evolutionary base:
Love Of Learning
If Love of Learning is your top strength, you love learning new things, whether in a class or on your own. You have always loved school, reading, and museums-anywhere and everywhere there is an opportunity to learn.
Virtue Category
Love of Learning falls in the virtue category of Wisdom. Wisdom deals with strengths that involve the way we acquire and use knowledge.
Key Concepts
Love of learning describes the way in which a person engages new information and skills. Love of learning is a strength that teachers would like to see in their students, parents want to encourage in their children, therapists support in their clients, and employers try to foster in their employees. It has important motivational consequences because it helps people persist through challenges, setbacks and negative feedback.
Perseverance
If Perseverance is your top strength, you work hard to finish what you start. No matter the project, you "get it out the door" in timely fashion. You do not get distracted when you work, and you take satisfaction in completing tasks
Virtue Category
Perseverance falls under the virtue category of Courage. Courage describes strengths that deal with overcoming fear. These strengths can manifest themselves inwardly or outwardly as they are composed of cognitions, emotions, motivations and decisions
Key Concepts
Perseverance involves the voluntary continuation of a goal-directed action despite the presence of challenges, difficulties, and discouragement. There are two vectors of perseverance. It requires both effort for a task and duration to keep the task up.
Perspective
If Perspective is your top strength, you have a way of looking at the world that makes sense to others and to yourself. Although you may not think of yourself as wise, your friends hold this view of you. They value your perspective on matters and turn to you for advice.
Virtue Category
Perspective falls in the virtue category of Wisdom. Wisdom deals with strengths that involve the way we acquire and use knowledge.
Key Concepts
Perspective is distinct from intelligence but represents a high level of knowledge, the capacity to give advice and to recognize and weight multiple sides before making decisions. It allows the individual to address important questions about the conduct and meaning of life.
Prudence
If Prudence is your top strength, you are a careful person, and your choices are consistently prudent ones. You do not say or do things that you might later regret.
Virtue Category
Prudence falls under the virtue category of Temperance. Temperance deals with strengths that protect us from excess. It is the practiced ability to monitor and manage one's emotions, motivation and behavior in the absence of outside help.
Key Concepts
Prudence involves far-sighted planning as well as short-term, goal-directed planning. It is often referred to as cautious wisdom, practical wisdom, and practical reason.
Self-Regulation
If Self-Regulation is your top strength, you self-consciously regulate what you feel and what you do. You are a disciplined person. You are in control of your appetites and your emotions, not vice versa.
Virtue Category
Self-Regulation falls under the virtue category of Temperance. Temperance deals with strengths that protect us from excess. It is the practiced ability to monitor and manage one's emotions, motivation and behavior in the absence of outside help.
Key Concepts
Self-Regulation can be viewed as a resource that can be depleted and fatigued. A useful metaphor can be that self-regulation acts like a muscle, which can be exhausted through over-exertion or strengthened through regular practice.
Social Intelligence
If Social Intelligence is your top strength, you are aware of the motives and feelings of other people. You know what to do to fit in to different social situations, and you know what to do to put others at ease. You are kind and generous to others, and you are never too busy to do a favor. You enjoy doing good deeds for others, even if you do not know them well.
Virtue Category
Social Intelligence falls under the virtue category of Humanity. Humanity describes strengths that manifest in caring relationships with others. These strengths are interpersonal and are mostly relevant in one-on-one relationships.
Key Concepts
Social intelligence involves two general components:
Spirituality
If Spirituality is your top strength you have strong and coherent beliefs about the higher purpose and meaning of the universe. You know where you fit in the larger scheme. Your beliefs shape your actions and are a source of comfort to you.
Virtue Category
Spirituality falls under the virtue category of Transcendence. Transcendence describes strengths that provide a broad sense of connection to something higher in meaning and purpose than ourselves.
Key Concepts
Spirituality is believed to describe both the private, intimate relationship between humans and the divine, and the range of virtues that result from the relationships. Spirituality is universal. Although the specific content of spiritual beliefs varies, all cultures have a concept of an ultimate, transcendent, sacred force.
Teamwork
If Teamwork is your top strength, you excel as a member of a group. You are a loyal and dedicated teammate, you always do your share, and you work hard for the success of your group.
Virtue Category
Teamwork falls under the virtue category of Justice. Justice describes strengths that make life fair. They are broadly interpersonal and describe the best interaction between the individual and a group or community.
Key Concepts
Teamwork is closely related to 3 other concepts:
Zest
If Zest is your top strength, you approach all experiences with excitement and energy. You never do anything halfway or halfheartedly. For you, life is an adventure.
Virtue Category
Zest falls under the virtue category of Courage. Courage describes strengths that deal with overcoming fear. These strengths can manifest themselves inwardly or outwardly as they are composed of cognitions, emotions, motivations and decisions.
Key Concepts
Zest is a dynamic strengths that is directly related to physical and psychological wellness. This strength has the strongest ties to overall life satisfaction and a life of engagement.
- What made sense to you about finding out that this was one of your strengths?
- What surprised you?
- What does it mean to you to find out that this is a strength for you?
- When you think of people that you would describe as having this strength, what sort of qualities or behaviours or attitudes do they usually display? If you're stuck you might like to think of characters in books or movies or TV shows that you would describe as being brave or kind or whatever the particular strength is.
- Can you think of any attitudes you have or events you’ve experienced that could be evidence that this is a character strength of yours? Describe one.
- What sort of careers do you think a person who had this character strength might be suited to?
- Do you think you're suited to these careers? Why or why not?
6. After you've answered the dot point questions above for all four of your top strengths, start a new page in your book and write down what sort of careers or pursuits you think might suit someone with your combination of character strengths? Do these careers sound like you?
7. With Mrs Schuberg you completed the www.16personalities.com test. What similarities can you find between your personality type and your character strengths? What differences do you notice?
8. Has completing these two tests helped you understand yourself any better? Why or why not?
9. Ephesians 2:4-9 says:
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Knowing our character strengths can be helpful in giving people hope, meaning and purpose in their lives but the bible passage above from Ephesians gives us some other reasons for having hope, meaning and purpose. What are these reasons?
(If you find the language tricky you might like to try this simpler English version.)
HERE ARE THE CHARACTER STRENGTH DESCRIPTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT NEED TO PRINT OFF:
Appreciation Of Beauty And Excellence
If Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence is your top strength you notice and appreciate beauty, excellence, and/or skilled performance in all domains of life, from nature to art to mathematics to science to everyday experience.
Virtue Category
Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence falls under the virtue category of Transcendence. Transcendence describes strengths that provide a broad sense of connection to something higher in meaning and purpose than ourselves.
Key Concepts
There are three types of goodness for which individuals high in Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence are responsive to:
Physical beauty. This may be visual, auditory, tactile, or abstract. This type of goodness produces awe and wonder in the individual experiencing it.
Skill or talent (excellence). This is often energizing, and makes the individual want to pursue their own goals. It produces admiration.
Virtue or moral goodness (moral beauty). Virtual goodness makes the individual want to be better, more loving, and produces feelings of elevation.
Bravery
If Bravery is your top strength, you are a courageous person who does not shrink from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain. You speak up for what is right even if there is opposition. You act on your convictions.
Virtue Category
Bravery falls under the virtue category of Courage. Courage describes strengths that deal with overcoming fear. These strengths can manifest themselves inwardly or outwardly as they are composed of cognitions, emotions, motivations and decisions.
Key Concepts
There are three types of bravery (an individual may possess one of these or a combination):
Physical bravery (e.g., firefighters, police officers, soldiers)
Psychological bravery (e.g., facing painful aspects of oneself)
Moral bravery (e.g., speaking up for what's right, even if it's an unfavorable opinion to a group)
Creativity
If Creativity is your top strength, thinking of new ways to do things is a crucial part of who you are. You are never content with doing something the conventional way if a better way is possible.
Virtue Category
Creativity falls in the virtue category of Wisdom. Wisdom deals with strengths that involve the way we acquire and use knowledge.
Key Concepts
There are two essential components to Creativity- originality and adaptiveness. A creative individual generates ideas or behaviors that are novel or unusual and these make a positive contribution to the individual's life or the lives of others.
Curiosity
If Curiosity is your top strength, you are interested in learning more about anything and everything. You are always asking questions, and you find all subjects and topics fascinating. You like exploration and discovery.
Virtue Category
Curiosity falls in the virtue category of Wisdom. Wisdom deals with strengths that involve the way we acquire and use knowledge.
Key Concepts
There are two key components to curious individuals: They are interested in exploring new ideas, activities and experiences, and they also have a strong desire to increase their own personal knowledge.
Fairness
If Fairness is your top strength, treating people fairly is one of your abiding principles. You do not let your personal feelings bias your decisions about other people. You give everyone a chance.
Virtue Category
Fairness falls under the virtue category of Justice. Justice describes strengths that make life fair. They are broadly interpersonal and describe the best interaction between the individual and a group or community.
Key Concepts
Fairness is a cognitive judgment capacity that involves reasoning and making judgments. It involves 2 types of reasoning:
Justice reasoning which emphasizes logic and weighing principles to determine moral rights and responsibilities.
Care reasoning which includes empathy and compassion; the ability to put yourself in somebody else's shoes.
Forgiveness
If Forgiveness is your top strength, you are good at forgiving those who have done you wrong. You always give people a second chance. You believe in mercy, and not revenge.
Virtue Category
Forgiveness falls under the virtue category of Temperance. Temperance deals with strengths that protect us from excess. It is the practiced ability to monitor and manage one's emotions, motivation and behavior in the absence of outside help.
Key Concepts
It is important to distinguish forgiveness from:
- condoning (removes the offense)
- forgetting (removes the awareness)
- reconciliation (restores the relationship)
Gratitude
If Gratitude is your top strength you are aware of the good things that happen to you, and you never take them for granted. Your friends and family members know that you are a grateful person because you always take the time to express your thank
Virtue Category
Gratitude falls under the virtue category of Transcendence. Transcendence describes strengths that provide a broad sense of connection to something higher in meaning and purpose than ourselves.
Key Concepts
There are two types of gratitude:
- Benefit-triggered gratitude=the state that follows when a desired benefit is received from a benefactor.
- Generalized gratitude=the state resulting from awareness and appreciation of what is valuable and meaningful to yourself.
- Acknowledging the goodness in your life.
- Recognizing the source of this goodness is outside yourself.
Honesty
If Honesty is your top strength, you are a straightforward person, not only by speaking the truth but by living your life in a genuine and authentic way. You are down to earth and without pretense; you are a "real" person.
Virtue Category
Honesty falls under the virtue category of Courage. Courage describes strengths that deal with overcoming fear. These strengths can manifest themselves inwardly or outwardly as they are composed of cognitions, emotions, motivations and decisions.
Key Concepts
This strength involves accurately representing your internal states, intentions, and commitments, both publicly and privately. The strength of honesty is often linked to self-concordance- the extent to which your goals accurately represent your implicit interests and values. Honesty allows people to take responsibility for their feelings and behaviors, owning them, and reaping benefits by doing so.
Hope
If Hope is your top strength you expect the best in the future, and you work to achieve it. You believe that the future is something that you can control.
Virtue Category
Hope falls under the virtue category of Transcendence. Transcendence describes strengths that provide a broad sense of connection to something higher in meaning and purpose than ourselves.
Key Concepts
Optimism is closely linked with having a particular explanatory style (how we explain the causes of bad events). People using an optimistic explanatory style interpret events as external, unstable and specific. Those using a pessimistic explanatory style interpret events as internal, stable and global.
Humility
If Humility is your top strength, you do not seek the spotlight, preferring to let your accomplishments speak for themselves. You do not regard yourself as special, and others recognize and value your modesty.
Virtue Category
Humility falls under the virtue category of Temperance. Temperance deals with strengths that protect us from excess. It is the practiced ability to monitor and manage one's emotions, motivation and behavior in the absence of outside help.
Key Concepts
A common misconception is that humility involves having a low self-esteem, a sense of unworthiness, and/or a lack of self-focus. However, true humility involves an accurate self-assessment, recognition of limitations, keeping accomplishments in perspective, and forgetting of the self. Humble people do not distort information to defend or verify their own image, and they do not need to see-or present- themselves as being better than they actually are.
Humor
If Humor is your top strength you like to laugh and tease. Bringing smiles to other people is important to you. You try to see the light side of all situations.
Virtue Category
Humor falls under the virtue category of Transcendence. Transcendence describes strengths that provide a broad sense of connection to something higher in meaning and purpose than ourselves.
Key Concepts
Humor involves the ability to make other people smile or laugh. It also means having a composed and cheerful view on adversity that allows an individual to see its light side and thereby sustain a good mood.
Judgment
If Judgment is your top strength, thinking things through and examining them from all sides are important aspects of who you are. You do not jump to conclusions, and you rely only on solid evidence to make your decisions. You are able to change your mind.
Virtue Category
Judgment falls in the virtue category of Wisdom. Wisdom deals with strengths that involve the way we acquire and use knowledge.
Key Concepts
The strength of judgment is a corrective strength in that it counteracts faulty thinking, such as favoring your current views or favoring ideas that are considered the dominant view, and therefore giving less attention to the less-dominant view. It is the willingness to search actively for evidence against your favored beliefs, plans or goals and to weigh all of the evidence fairly when it is available.
Kindness
If Kindness is your top strength you are kind and generous to others, and you are never too busy to do a favor. You enjoy doing good deeds for others, even if you do not know them well.
Virtue Category
Kindness falls under the virtue category of Humanity. Humanity describes strengths that manifest in caring relationships with others. These strengths are interpersonal and are mostly relevant in one-on-one relationships.
Key Concepts
Kind individuals believe that others are worthy of attention and affirmation for their own sake as human beings, not out of s sense of duty or principle. There are three traits of altruistic personalities:
- Empathy/sympathy
- Moral reasoning
- Social responsibility
Leadership
If Leadership is your top strength, you excel at encouraging a group to get things done and preserving harmony within the group by making everyone feel included. You do a good job organizing activities and seeing that they happen.
Virtue Category
Leadership falls under the virtue category of Justice. Justice describes strengths that make life fair. They are broadly interpersonal and describe the best interaction between the individual and a group or community.
Key Concepts
Leadership is a social phenomenon that can be distinguished into two areas:
- Practice- defining, establishing, identifying or translating direction
- Personal quality- the motivation and capacity to seek out, attain and carry out leader roles.
- Transactional leaders- this type of leader clarifies responsibilities, expectations, and the tasks to be accomplished.
- Transformational leaders- this leader motivates their followers to perform at an extremely high level, fostering a climate of trust and commitment to the organization and its goals.
Love
If Love is your top strength you value close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing and caring are reciprocated. The people to whom you feel most close are the same people who feel most close to you.
Virtue Category
Love falls under the virtue category of Humanity. Humanity describes strengths that manifest in caring relationships with others. These strengths are interpersonal and are mostly relevant in one-on-one relationships.
Key Concepts
There are four types of love, each with a biological and evolutionary base:
- Attachment love: parent for child; child for parent
- Compassionate/altruistic love: kindness
- Companionate love: friendship
- Romantic love: spouse/partner/boyfriend/girlfriend
Love Of Learning
If Love of Learning is your top strength, you love learning new things, whether in a class or on your own. You have always loved school, reading, and museums-anywhere and everywhere there is an opportunity to learn.
Virtue Category
Love of Learning falls in the virtue category of Wisdom. Wisdom deals with strengths that involve the way we acquire and use knowledge.
Key Concepts
Love of learning describes the way in which a person engages new information and skills. Love of learning is a strength that teachers would like to see in their students, parents want to encourage in their children, therapists support in their clients, and employers try to foster in their employees. It has important motivational consequences because it helps people persist through challenges, setbacks and negative feedback.
Perseverance
If Perseverance is your top strength, you work hard to finish what you start. No matter the project, you "get it out the door" in timely fashion. You do not get distracted when you work, and you take satisfaction in completing tasks
Virtue Category
Perseverance falls under the virtue category of Courage. Courage describes strengths that deal with overcoming fear. These strengths can manifest themselves inwardly or outwardly as they are composed of cognitions, emotions, motivations and decisions
Key Concepts
Perseverance involves the voluntary continuation of a goal-directed action despite the presence of challenges, difficulties, and discouragement. There are two vectors of perseverance. It requires both effort for a task and duration to keep the task up.
Perspective
If Perspective is your top strength, you have a way of looking at the world that makes sense to others and to yourself. Although you may not think of yourself as wise, your friends hold this view of you. They value your perspective on matters and turn to you for advice.
Virtue Category
Perspective falls in the virtue category of Wisdom. Wisdom deals with strengths that involve the way we acquire and use knowledge.
Key Concepts
Perspective is distinct from intelligence but represents a high level of knowledge, the capacity to give advice and to recognize and weight multiple sides before making decisions. It allows the individual to address important questions about the conduct and meaning of life.
Prudence
If Prudence is your top strength, you are a careful person, and your choices are consistently prudent ones. You do not say or do things that you might later regret.
Virtue Category
Prudence falls under the virtue category of Temperance. Temperance deals with strengths that protect us from excess. It is the practiced ability to monitor and manage one's emotions, motivation and behavior in the absence of outside help.
Key Concepts
Prudence involves far-sighted planning as well as short-term, goal-directed planning. It is often referred to as cautious wisdom, practical wisdom, and practical reason.
Self-Regulation
If Self-Regulation is your top strength, you self-consciously regulate what you feel and what you do. You are a disciplined person. You are in control of your appetites and your emotions, not vice versa.
Virtue Category
Self-Regulation falls under the virtue category of Temperance. Temperance deals with strengths that protect us from excess. It is the practiced ability to monitor and manage one's emotions, motivation and behavior in the absence of outside help.
Key Concepts
Self-Regulation can be viewed as a resource that can be depleted and fatigued. A useful metaphor can be that self-regulation acts like a muscle, which can be exhausted through over-exertion or strengthened through regular practice.
Social Intelligence
If Social Intelligence is your top strength, you are aware of the motives and feelings of other people. You know what to do to fit in to different social situations, and you know what to do to put others at ease. You are kind and generous to others, and you are never too busy to do a favor. You enjoy doing good deeds for others, even if you do not know them well.
Virtue Category
Social Intelligence falls under the virtue category of Humanity. Humanity describes strengths that manifest in caring relationships with others. These strengths are interpersonal and are mostly relevant in one-on-one relationships.
Key Concepts
Social intelligence involves two general components:
- Social awareness: what we sense about others
- Social facility: what we do with our awareness
Spirituality
If Spirituality is your top strength you have strong and coherent beliefs about the higher purpose and meaning of the universe. You know where you fit in the larger scheme. Your beliefs shape your actions and are a source of comfort to you.
Virtue Category
Spirituality falls under the virtue category of Transcendence. Transcendence describes strengths that provide a broad sense of connection to something higher in meaning and purpose than ourselves.
Key Concepts
Spirituality is believed to describe both the private, intimate relationship between humans and the divine, and the range of virtues that result from the relationships. Spirituality is universal. Although the specific content of spiritual beliefs varies, all cultures have a concept of an ultimate, transcendent, sacred force.
Teamwork
If Teamwork is your top strength, you excel as a member of a group. You are a loyal and dedicated teammate, you always do your share, and you work hard for the success of your group.
Virtue Category
Teamwork falls under the virtue category of Justice. Justice describes strengths that make life fair. They are broadly interpersonal and describe the best interaction between the individual and a group or community.
Key Concepts
Teamwork is closely related to 3 other concepts:
- Citizenship: responsibility toward one's community
- Loyalty: unwavering trust for a group
- Patriotism: loyalty toward one's homeland/nation without hostility toward other nations.
Zest
If Zest is your top strength, you approach all experiences with excitement and energy. You never do anything halfway or halfheartedly. For you, life is an adventure.
Virtue Category
Zest falls under the virtue category of Courage. Courage describes strengths that deal with overcoming fear. These strengths can manifest themselves inwardly or outwardly as they are composed of cognitions, emotions, motivations and decisions.
Key Concepts
Zest is a dynamic strengths that is directly related to physical and psychological wellness. This strength has the strongest ties to overall life satisfaction and a life of engagement.
WRONG WAY, GO BACK.
BENEATH THIS POINT IS NO LONGER YEAR 7PDHPE!
BENEATH THIS POINT IS NO LONGER YEAR 7PDHPE!
Homework Due Monday 30th November:
Homework Due Friday 27th November
- Complete reading and answering questions for Silence..., One Reason... and one other story of your choice from the selection you were given in class.
- Identify key themes of The Importance of Being Earnest from your reading so far (you now have a copy of the text so you can use that to assist you.
- Work on your assessment task due Monday 7th December. If you would like to submit a draft of your story for feedback, you must get it to me by the end of school on Tuesday 1st December.
- Complete reading and answering questions for Silence..., One Reason... and one other story of your choice from the selection you were given in class.
- Identify key themes of The Importance of Being Earnest from your reading so far (you now have a copy of the text so you can use that to assist you.
- Work on your assessment task due Monday 7th December. If you would like to submit a draft of your story for feedback, you must get it to me by the end of school on Tuesday 1st December.
AlterEgo – Write a narrative - 750 - 1500 words due Friday 13th Nov
Imagine that while your family live in the mountains, you have an alter-ego that you assume in the city where no-one knows you. When you get into trouble in the city, you can just blame your wayward twin.
What kind of things would you do?
What would be good about this arrangement?
What could go wrong?
ALTERNATIVELY: You could transpose this concept into a different personal, cultural, geographical, historical or workplace context and write your story in that setting, trying to draw out what you imagine would be the relevant perspectives, attitudes and values. (See narrative writing info below. Click on the images to enlarge and clarify the text)
Imagine that while your family live in the mountains, you have an alter-ego that you assume in the city where no-one knows you. When you get into trouble in the city, you can just blame your wayward twin.
What kind of things would you do?
What would be good about this arrangement?
What could go wrong?
ALTERNATIVELY: You could transpose this concept into a different personal, cultural, geographical, historical or workplace context and write your story in that setting, trying to draw out what you imagine would be the relevant perspectives, attitudes and values. (See narrative writing info below. Click on the images to enlarge and clarify the text)
Texts and Context - Questions to be completed by Tuesday 10th November
Perspective – your way of looking at/seeing the world, the lens through which you view things, your vantage point. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Attitude – your settled way of feeling/thinking about something, the mental/intellectual/emotional stance you bring into a situation.
Values – your principles or standards of behaviour, what you judge to be important in life, your ethical or moral code
1. Personal Context: How could an individual's family, age, life experiences, gender, ethnicity etc shape his or her perspective, attitudes and values?
2. Geographical location: Why is where you live important? What impact can your geographical location have on your perspective attitude and values?
3. Historical context: Why would living in a different historical period be significant? What differences would you expect to find between the perspective, attitude and values of a 16yo girl/boy living in Australia today as opposed to a 16 yo girl/boy living in Australia in 1715. Compare Viola's story in Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night to Viola's story in She's The Man.
4. Cultural context: What influence does culture have on an individual's perspective? How might cultural background and heritage influence perspective, attitude and values. Think about Australia Day (26th Jan – commemorating the landing of the First Fleet on Australian soil 26th January, 1788). Why might Indigenous Australians refer to it as Invasion Day? What might that reveal about their perspective, attitude and values?
5. Workplace context: Does an individual's workplace context have an influence on his or her perspective, attitude and values? Consider how you would regard life if you worked in a Nike sweatshop in Taiwan.
Perspective – your way of looking at/seeing the world, the lens through which you view things, your vantage point. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Attitude – your settled way of feeling/thinking about something, the mental/intellectual/emotional stance you bring into a situation.
Values – your principles or standards of behaviour, what you judge to be important in life, your ethical or moral code
1. Personal Context: How could an individual's family, age, life experiences, gender, ethnicity etc shape his or her perspective, attitudes and values?
2. Geographical location: Why is where you live important? What impact can your geographical location have on your perspective attitude and values?
3. Historical context: Why would living in a different historical period be significant? What differences would you expect to find between the perspective, attitude and values of a 16yo girl/boy living in Australia today as opposed to a 16 yo girl/boy living in Australia in 1715. Compare Viola's story in Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night to Viola's story in She's The Man.
4. Cultural context: What influence does culture have on an individual's perspective? How might cultural background and heritage influence perspective, attitude and values. Think about Australia Day (26th Jan – commemorating the landing of the First Fleet on Australian soil 26th January, 1788). Why might Indigenous Australians refer to it as Invasion Day? What might that reveal about their perspective, attitude and values?
5. Workplace context: Does an individual's workplace context have an influence on his or her perspective, attitude and values? Consider how you would regard life if you worked in a Nike sweatshop in Taiwan.
Below this point is material relevant to Year 10 English
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These questions on the extract in p86-88 of Anh Do's The Happiest Refugee are to be completed for homework. Due Tues 11/8.
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Click on the photos to enlarge. Your chosen creative task is due on Thursday 6th August. Use the sheet on Showing and Telling to improve your descriptive writing.
For more info and helpful links, check https://www.diigo.com/user/mrsaatmcc/yr10
By Monday 9th March, you need to have completed Q1-14 about Chapter 1 using the relevant sheet, and on the next sheet you need to have completed Q 1-6 about Chapter 2.
Also, make sure you keep reading the novel if you have not yet completed it.
In the gallery below, find the instructions from the board - Thursday 26/2.
You are to complete the phone task for either Piggy, Ralph or Jack and then the instagram task for each of the other two boys.
There is an additional phone template attached if you would like to print another.
Click on the thumbnail below to see the full image.
Also, make sure you keep reading the novel if you have not yet completed it.
In the gallery below, find the instructions from the board - Thursday 26/2.
You are to complete the phone task for either Piggy, Ralph or Jack and then the instagram task for each of the other two boys.
There is an additional phone template attached if you would like to print another.
Click on the thumbnail below to see the full image.
Have a look at these images from a Lord of the Flies cover art competition.
For more info and helpful links, check https://www.diigo.com/user/mrsaatmcc/yr10
Look at the diigo library above for the "In defense of consumerism" article and the link to "The Story of Stuff" movie we looked at in class on Thursday 12th Feb to aid you with specific evidence for our debate "The we should live smaller".
Look at the diigo library above for the "In defense of consumerism" article and the link to "The Story of Stuff" movie we looked at in class on Thursday 12th Feb to aid you with specific evidence for our debate "The we should live smaller".
CONSUMERISM - what arguments would you make for or against these statements?
X Consumerism is a way of life X Consumerism is a confusion of ‘needs’ and ‘wants’
X Consumerism shapes our identity X Consumerism is a never-ending journey
X Consumerism is a way of life X Consumerism is a confusion of ‘needs’ and ‘wants’
X Consumerism shapes our identity X Consumerism is a never-ending journey